DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — On his first trip to Dubai, former heavyweight boxing champion Mike Tyson recalls getting off a plane wearing a traditional Muslim cap and robes, carrying a Quran and expecting to find a society strictly governed by conservative mores. Mike Tyson makes a fist during an interview with The Associated […]
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Writer Chinua Achebe Honored in Nigeria Funeral
OGIDI, Nigeria— Writer Chinua Achebe shunned Nigeria’s corrupt politicians and twice turned down national honors, never fearing to criticize those he felt ruined his country. On Thursday, however, the lawmakers and the country’s elite came to praise him. Hundreds attended Achebe’s funeral among the rolling hills of his eastern Nigeria home, a service that saw […]
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Nigeria: Gunmen Kidnap Three Local Journalists
LAGOS, Nigeria (AP) — Gunmen kidnapped three Nigerian journalists and a driver traveling through the country’s oil-rich, but volatile southern delta, a colleague said July 12, the latest troubling sign of insecurity in the West African nation. The reporters had just left a conference in Akwa Ibom state Sunday when a speeding car filled with […]